The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today published the latest
draft of its Authorisation
Framework for the approval of Education and Training
Organisations (AETOs), who provide vocational training and
pupillage and other forms of work-based learning for those training
for the Bar.

Today's draft takes into account comments received on previous
drafts which were first published for consultation in October 2017
and which have subsequently been the subject of an extensive
programme of consultative engagement with relevant
stakeholders.

The purpose of the Authorisation Framework is to explain to
training providers what they must do to meet the BSB's requirements
to be authorised to deliver Bar training. In particular, it
explains what will be required to comply with the BSB's four
principles of accessibility, affordability, flexibility and
sustaining high standards.

The BSB is also today
publishing guidance for those who wish to become authorised to
deliver the vocational component of Bar training e.g. Universities.
Guidance will be published for those providing pupillage and other
forms of work-based learning in the future.

These separate guidance documents will explain the different
sets of evidence which the BSB will require from the two types of
AETO to reflect the different components of training which they
will provide. The evidence sought from a training provider offering
vocational training to a large number of students will be of a
different scope and nature to that required from a chambers with
only one or two pupils, for example. This reflects the BSB's
risk-based approach to Bar Training. The guidance for those
providing pupillage will be piloted before publication to ensure
that it is easy to use by chambers and other providers of
work-based learning.

The BSB would welcome comments and feedback on these documents
which will evolve in the light of feedback from training providers
and others with an interest.

Vanessa Davies, the Director General of the Bar Standards Board
said: "We hope that these documents will help training providers to
prepare for the new authorisation arrangements and will encourage
them to innovate in providing new ways of training for the Bar. We
are very grateful to all those who commented on the framework
during the consultation period and who have contributed to the
framework and guidance work since then. We look forward to
discussing the guidance for vocational training with existing and
potential providers, and in due course to working closely with
chambers to pilot the guidance that they will need."

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